Related organisations

There are also lots of organisations who already run programmes of work highly relevant to Capital Growth, which are shown below. If you know of others that we should feature, please let us know.

Bankside Open Spaces Trust
BOST is the Bankside Open Spaces Trust, working in the area south from the Thames near London Bridge. BOST works to shape local concern into action, for parks, gardens, the streetscape and the wider shared environment, including several food growing projects. http://www.bost.org.uk/

Big Lottery: Local Food grants
Local Food is a £50 million programme that will distribute lottery grants to a variety of food-related projects to help make locally grown food accessible and affordable to local communities. See: http://www.localfoodgrants.org/

Biodynamic Education Centre
The Biodynamic Education Centre is an international college offering a range of educational programs for biodynamic farming and gardening. http://www.biodynamiceducation.com/

Buglife
Buglife is devoted to saving Britain's rarest little animals, everything from bees to beetles, and spiders to snails, helping to secure a diverse and wildlife-rich planet for future generations.http://www.buglife.org.uk/ 

Butterfly Conservation
Butterfly Conservation works to halt the alarming decline of many beautiful butterflies. It operates 33 nature reserves and is involved in 67 landscape-scale projects to conserve habitats. It also offers advice to gardeners on how to encourage butterfly populations. http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/

Calthorpe project
The Calthorpe Project is a building and community garden integrally linked to a small, multi-use green space on the Grays Inn Road in London's King's Cross. The site also includes a one-acre organic community garden for local people to tend. http://www.calthorpeproject.org.uk/

Capel ManorCollege
Capel Manor College is a land-based study centre based in London, established as a centre for horticultural studies in 1968. It is a Centre of Vocational Excellence for Horticulture, Landscaping and Garden Design. http://www.capel.ac.uk/horticulture/

Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens exists to support, represent and promote community-managed farms and gardens across the United Kingdom.http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/

Food for Life
The Food for Life Partnership is a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture. Its mission is to reach out through schools to give communities access to seasonal, local and organic food, and to the skills they need to cook and grow fresh food for themselves. http://www.foodforlife.org.uk/

FoodLoversBritain.com

FoodLoversBritain.com is Britain’s tastiest website, founded by local food and farmers market champion and Taste the Nation judge Henrietta Green. As well as thousands of local and regional food businesses, including Places to Eat and Places to Learn, you’ll find masses of editorial content including information on CherryAid – the campaign to save the British cherry and its orchards – and Little Green Book of Home-Grown Harvests, with loads of ideas on grow-your-own, make-your-own and keep-your-own. http://www.foodloversbritain.com

Food Up Front
Food Up Front supports people to grow food in their unused outdoor space. Whether it’s front gardens, balconies, windowsills or back gardens all members are given the opportunity to grow and share healthy, natural food. http://www.foodupfront.org/

Garden Organic
Garden Organic is the UK's leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 years and is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food. http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/
Garden Organic offers a wealth of advice to budding gardeners and food growers, such as factsheets, events and courses, and showcase organic gardens to visit.

Global Generation
Global Generation brings together people of all ages and backgrounds in practical projects that are creative and educational, including several roof garden projects in London. See, for example, local food production projects and the new 'Big Green Challenge' project called Living Buildings and Local Links.http://www.globalgeneration.org.uk/

Good Gardeners Association
With over forty years experience of no-dig gardening the Good Gardeners Association is developing research and education projects that track the flow of nutrients, including vitality, from soil to plant. http://www.goodgardeners.org.uk/

Groundwork
Groundwork supports communities in need, working with partners to help improve the quality of people’s lives, their prospects and potential and the places where they live, work and play. In London, Groundwork is supporting several schemes to instal roof gardens, promote food growing and look after community green space. http://www.groundwork.org.uk/

Growing Communities
Growing Communities is a social enterprise run by local people in Hackney, East London. It is working to create a more sustainable food system, supporting small organic farmers through a box scheme and farmers' market, and growing salad crops on park land in Hackney. In 2009, it will launch a mentoring scheme for other communities who wish to replicate the success of Growing Communities. http://www.growingcommunities.org/

Landshare
Working with Keo Films and Channel 4, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has launched a new scheme called Landshare to link communities with land. This is particularly useful for people living outside London, beyond the geographical reach of the Capital Growth campaign. http://landshare.channel4.com/

Learning Through Landscapes
Learning through Landscapes helps schools and early years settings make the most of their outdoor spaces for play and learning.http://www.ltl.org.uk/

LivingRoofs.org
The independent UK website to promote green roofs (roofs that are intentionally vegetated) and provide advice for their installation. This site is in response to the growing interest in green roofs in the UK, and the need to provide detailed and independent information.http://www.livingroofs.org/

London Parks and Green Spaces Forum

Making Local Food Work
Making Local Food Work is an initiative managed by the Plunkett Foundation and funded by the Big Lottery Fund to explore community enterprise approaches to connecting land and people through food. Its objective is to reconnect people and land through local food  increasing access to fresh, healthy, local food with clear, traceable origins. http://www.makinglocalfoodwork.co.uk/

National Care Farming Initiative
Care Farming uses commercial farms, woodlands and market gardens as a base for promoting mental and physical health through normal farming activity. Many participants on care farms experience improvements to their physical, mental and spiritual health and well-being. http://www.ncfi.org.uk/

Organic Lea
Organic Lea is a small food growing co-operative in the Lea Valley, Walthamstow in East London. It grows food on local sites, which is shared amongst volunteers and sold at affordable prices to local people. Organic Lea promotes nutritious fresh food, collective food growing and pedal-power transport, and offers training in food growing. http://www.organiclea.org.uk/involved.html

Permaculture Association
Permaculture is about creating sustainable human habitats based on an ecological design system that inspires and empowers us to create our own solutions to local and global problems, creating healthy productive places to work, rest and play.http://www.permaculture.org.uk/

Pesticides Action NetworkUK
Pesticides Action Network aims to eliminate the dangers of toxic pesticides, our exposure to them, and their presence in the environment where we live and work. Nationally and globally, PAN-UK  promote safer alternatives, the production of healthy food, and sustainable farming. It also offers tips on safer gardening for people growing food at home.http://www.pan-uk.org/

Royal Parks
The Royal Parks manages eight royal parks in London for millions of Londoners and tourists to enjoy, and conserves the Parks to ensure future generations can enjoy them too. The 5,000 acres of historic parkland provide unparalleled opportunities for enjoyment, exploration and healthy living in the heart of the capital. http://www.royalparks.org.uk/

Royal Horticultural Society
The RHS is the UK's largest gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. http://www.rhs.org.uk

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The UK's bird conservation organisation, the RSPB has over a million members, including over 170,000 youth members. It works to raise awareness of and to combat climate change, agricultural intensification, expansion of urban areas and transport infrastructure, and over-exploitation of our seas - issues that pose major threats to birds. http://www.rspb.org.uk/ 

RUAF - Resources Centres on Urban Agriculture & Food Security
The RUAF Foundation is an international policy and advocacy organisation with partners in Europe, Africa and Asia, working to reduce urban poverty, generate employment and food security and stimulate participatory city governance. It promotes urban and peri-urban farming and the local and international policies to help this thrive. http://www.ruaf.org/

Soil Association
The Soil Association is the UK's leading campaigning and certification organisation for organic food and farming. In October the Soil Association launched its Organic Apprenticeship Scheme to offer a structured, and practical training package to encourage young employees and new entrants to organic farming, growing and food production. http://www.soilassociation.org/

The Land Is Ours
The Land Is Ours campaigns peacefully for access to the land, its resources, and the decision-making processes affecting them, for everyone, irrespective of race, gender or age.http://www.tlio.org.uk/

Thrive
Thrive is a small national charity that uses gardening to change lives. It champions the benefits of gardening, carry out research and offers training and practical solutions so that anyone with a disability can take part in, benefit from and enjoy gardening.http://www.thrive.org.uk/

Transition Towns
Transition Towns is a movement that aims to equip communities for the dual challenges of climate change and peak oil. http://transitionculture.org/essential-info/why-transition-culture/

Urban Vegetables
A non-profit making company specialising in vegetable plot design and installation.
http://www.urbanvegetables.co.uk/

Waterloo Green Spaces Trust
Waterloo Green Spaces Trust manages the Waterloo Millennium Green. It also develops green open spaces throughout North Lambeth and organises community projects that enhance the lives of people who live, work and visit the area, such as free food growing clubs for local volunteers. http://www.waterloogreen.org.uk/

Wholesome Food Association
The WFA local symbol scheme is a low-cost, 'grassroots' alternative to organic certification for people who are growing or producing food for sale in their local region. http://www.wholesome-food.org.uk/

Women's Environmental Network
The Women's Environmental Network is a registered charity educating, informing and empowering women and men who care about the environment. The WEN Local Food campaign offers training and support to groups of women growing food in urban areas.http://www.wen.org.uk/

World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
WWOOF is a world wide network - started in 1971 - helping people share more sustainable ways of living. WWOOF organisations link people who want to volunteer on organic farms or smallholdings with people who are looking for volunteer help.http://www.wwoof.org/